Re: [PATCH] mm, zswap: don't touch the XArray lock if there is no entry to free

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Oct 18 2024 - 15:47:50 EST


On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 03:25:25AM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
> if (xa_empty(tree))
> return;
>
> - entry = xa_erase(tree, offset);
> - if (entry)
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + entry = xas_load(&xas);
> + if (entry) {

You should call xas_reset() here. And I'm not sure it's a great idea to
spin waiting for the xa lock while holding the RCU read lock? Probably
not awful but I could easily be wrong.

> + xas_lock(&xas);
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(xas_reload(&xas) != entry);
> + xas_store(&xas, NULL);
> + xas_unlock(&xas);
> zswap_entry_free(entry);
> + }
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> }
>
> int zswap_swapon(int type, unsigned long nr_pages)
> --
> 2.47.0
>
>